Me Eyes Closed (Self Portrait) © Laura Stevens
On occasion we break away from the classic Fashion Photographer mould to feature those with a more eclectic talent a “mélange” of several photographic perspectives, a hybrid of sorts. Laura Stevens is one of those rare breeds that exist outside of the proverbial pedestrian box. Laura Stevens was honoured to be one of the top five winners of the LensCulture Emerging Talents Award 2014 for her series Another November. Her work was selected by juror Olivier Laurent from TIME Lightbox.
Another November
© Laura Stevens
Another November
© Laura Stevens
Another November
© Laura Stevens
Another November
© Laura Stevens
Another November
© Laura Stevens
Another November
© Laura Stevens
Another November
© Laura Stevens
Another November
© Laura Stevens
LAURA STEVENS is an English photographer currently living in Paris. Laura’s work has recently been recognized in a number of awards, including the Magenta ‘Flash Forward’ Emerging Photographers 2012, the Lens Culture Exposure Awards 2011 and the Julia Margaret Cameron Award 2010. This August her work will be exhibited at the Latvian Photography Museum in Riga for her first solo show of the series ‘Us Alone’. Other group exhibitions this year include the Photography Open Salon in Arles and The Centre of Fine Art Photography in Colorado (winning Juror’s selection). Some of her clients and publications include: The Times, The Saturday Telegraph, Readers Digest, The British Journal of Photography, Together and Depaul International.
Another November Laura StevensFollowing the ending of a significant relationship in my life, an undoing began. Whilst adjusting to being a single woman, I started to create a photographic narrative based on the experience of losing love; directing other women to portray the gradual emotional and circumstantial stages, along the well-trodden track of the broken-hearted.Following the ending of a significant relationship in my life, an undoing began. Whilst adjusting to being a single woman, I started to create a photographic narrative based on the experience of losing love; directing other women to portray the gradual emotional and circumstantial stages, along the well-trodden track of the broken-hearted.
By constructing images of the evolving chapters, I was allowed a vantage point from which to view the changes occurring in me, from feelings of pain, confusion and loneliness towards the reconstruction of my identity as an individual.
The series of staged performances by different women, of whom are friends or those I had been drawn to from the street, are enacted to show an intimate moment of adjustment. They are seen isolated, surrounded by textures, colour and empty spaces in a room of their home in Paris.
Another November is situated in a deliberately nostalgic present where memories are constructed and irrevocably discolour, looking back to a past not yet acquainted with loss. Yet, it is a reminder that time, the arranger of all things, moves only in one direction.
